Coyote Amateur Radio Club

It’s been a while since we had one of these for greater Uvalde and surrounding countries; so it might not be a bad idea if you would attend another one of these fine events graciously provided by the National Weather Service.

The Los Moras Amateur Radio Club is hosting such event on April 21st at 6 PM at the Slator Hall in Brackettville, presented by Mr. Jon Zeitler from the NWS. Here’s a map by the magicians at Google:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/FIRST+UNITED+METHODIST+CHURCH/@29.3128821,-100.4195971,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x865f689534683839:0xefa9d61cab248cbe

Please note that the Slator Hall is accross the road from the church. It really is that simple.

N5UMJ bought a brand new digital camera and provided some new pictures of the amplifier he’s still selling. It’s been checked out and declared a “power house”! Check this post right here:

For sale – Wanted – Free

The website’s been moved to a new web host. Customization is still going on. Yeah, I know: it looks a bit “funky” for the time being. Stay tuned!

Only a test. To test the email-sending functionality of the new home of the CARC website. Yeah, it looks butt-ugly; but that won’t last forever! Sorry I can’t make it look “Coyote Ugly” 🙂

Present: Jim AB5JK, Gary K5QOW and Erik K5WW. Absent: too many!

The meeting was called to order at 7:06 PM.

Minutes from the February 2016 were read and approved.

The report from the Treasurer: our sock still contains $926 (but that’s about to change).

K5WW reports that it’s time to renew our web hosting plan, and almost time to renew our domain name. Total cost is $123.51, and that will be good to continue the service for another 3 years. That expense was approved; and K5WW will keep things running.

The repeater is still off the air. By now the duplexers should have been returned; but we haven’t heard back from David W5DUH. He will need to be contacted to see if he and/or the duplexers are stuck in San Antonio.

Update on the powerline interference: K5WW was contacted by the AEP spokesman last week, who claimed that “our problems have been fixed!”. After checking it turns out that the noise in the alley we reported weeks ago has indeed disappeared. But there are still many other sources of interference around us, making HF communication all but impossible. The next site that needs to be reported is the road between Whataburger and Garner Field Road, where clearly lots of bad things are happening to the grid. This will be a very long project…

Next month: elections for club officers!

The meeting was adjourned at 7:52 PM.

For my Belgian relatives and friends, on this sad day. (K5WW)

Elections are not until April. Oops, sorry!

But the meeting’s still tomorrow 🙂

will be on Tuesday March 22. It’s time to hold elections! Be there 🙂

And if it ends up sideways on Facebook: we don’t give a hoot! 😉

That guy Jay made 214 QSOs in the February NA QP RTTY, until he got interrupted by a crew from AEP. They finally verified and found the problem; and are going to start replacing hardware!

Because of that the contest got cut short; but still plenty of fun.

The meeting was called to order at 7:19 PM. Attending: Jason KS5TX, Jim AB5JK, David W5DUH and Erik K5WW.

Minutes of the Janaury meeting were read (but not out loud) and approved.

New business: the treasurer reports no changes since last month.

There are no changes in the level of radio interference in the shack; the representative from AEP has yet to show up.

David is picking up the repeater’s duplexers; which still needed to be retuned after the frequency change. That leaves the repeater offline; but the duplexers are expected to be back early March.

The biggest, and disastrous news: our fantastic President, Mr. Jason Shell KS5TX, has announced his resignation as President. He has accepted a new job in Fort Hood; and stated it would be impossible to perform his “duties” given the distance. Talk about a lame excuse! 😉

But: we all wish him the very best! And we all have a feeling he won’t be gone for long. Because, after all, he is the best. And he made sure to rub our noses in it, showing off a great looking certificate he received for placing 3rd in the 2015 edition of the TARA RTTY Melee contest, in the Single Operator Low Power section!

Jim AB5JK will take over the duties of President, at the very least until new elections can be held.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 PM, after which we all sobbed, witnessing Jason ride off in the sunset on his steed called Ford. Come back soon! 🙂